Boo!!!

Happy Halloween

I Just thought I'd share with you all a picture of our pumpkins!

and my Monsters!!






(well the Mummy is mine, the Skeleton is Aiden's 






Best Feind James)

Have a great Fright Night!!!!

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Brown, Pink & Cream.

This fortnight at Crafty Cardmakers we have a colour challenge for you 

and I have to say its one of my favourites 

 BROWN, PINK & CREAM

One Stop Card Crafts are giving our lucky winner for this fortnight a £10.00 gift voucher

 for their on-line store.

Today's challenges are:

Dutch Dare ~ Pearls & Swirls.
Raise the Bar ~  Sew What!!
Charisma Cardz ~ Anything Goes.
Addicted to Stamps ~ Shabby or Vintage.

Ingredients:

PP, Digi Stamp & Sentiment ~ Pink Petticoat.

Perfect Pearls ~ Petal Pink.

Button & Lace from stash.

Spooky Treats!

That's it I'm ready for the Li'l Horrors!

50 treat bags filled with ghoulish goodies

I've just got the Pumpkins to carve and a Mummy to bind in tea stained bandages!

Today's challenges are:

Halloween ~ Pollycraft, Kaboodle Doodle, Incy Wincy, The Crafty Pad,

  Stampavie & More, Delightful Challenges and Paper Play.

Candy ~ Crazy4Challenges.

Anything Goes ~ Simon Say's Stamp & Charisma Cardz.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Digi Stamps ~ Bugaboo.

Cello bags ~ Create & Craft.

Sweets & Treats ~ Poundland & Haribo.

Coloured with Copics.

Sketch Saturday ~ # 179 with The Craft Barn.

Good Morning bloggers. I'm here bright and early with another card for another wonderful 

week at Sketch Saturday. 

This week our Sponsor is one of our regulars

The Craft Barn.

The Craft Barn are giving this week winner a wonderful prize of a pack of 6 flexmakers.

Now onto this weeks sketch.........

Today's challenges are:

Halloween ~  Stampavie & More,  The Crafty Pad,  Paper Play,  Addicted to Stamps,  Incy Wincy,  & Kaboodle Doodle.

Black, Orange & Purple ~ Creative Inspirations & Stamptacular.

Black, Orange, Purple & Green ~ Delightful Challenges.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

CS ~ Create & Craft.

Digi Stamp ~ Make It Crafty.

Don't forget my Blog Candy!!

Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch # 137.

These weeks are rolling by, I can't believe that we have less than 8 weeks to Christmas and as usual I have bought a thing yet!! Oh well I expect I'd better get a move on!

Over at Inspirational Card Sketches this week, DZ Doodles is back to sponsor us!

This week DZ Doodles are giving our luck winner 

and onto this weeks sketch.....

and today's challenge is.

Simon Say's Stamp ~ Nursery Rhymes or Fairy Tales.

Ingredients:

Stamps ~ Whiff of Joy.

CS ~ Create & Craft.

PP ~ The Girls Paperie.

Hearts ~ Hobbycraft.

Nestabilies.

Coloured with Copics.

Sketch Saturday ~ # 178

Another week and another fantastic sponsor over at Sketch Saturday!

This week we have the amazing Mo Manning from Mo's Digital Pencil!!

Here is my "Mo" make.

Today's challenges are:

The Crafty Pad & Creative Inspirations ~ Monochromatic.
Stamptacular ~ You Choose!
Pollycraft ~ Girls Girls Girls!

Ingredients:

Digi Stamp ~ Mo's Digital Pencil.

Roses ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Brads ~ Papermania.

Ribbon ~ Dovecraft.

PP ~ Free by Lesley Shepard

Rosalee

Here's a very quick post with a card I started a few day's ago, but got pushed a side by a unexpected wedding make, unfortunately I didn't get time to photograph that one!!

This is Rosalee and she is for this months sketch challenge at Bombshell Stamps Blogs.

CS ~ Bazzill.

Roses ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

PP ~

Stamps ~ Bombshell.

Coloured with Copic Pens.

Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch # 136.

Time for another fantastic sketch from Inspirational card sketches

This weeks fabulous sponsor is the super

 Sassy Studio Designs

And here is this weeks super sketch!

The DT were given 3 wonderful digi stamps to work with

I chose to use this super cute n sassy french Maid

Today's challenges are:

Bunny Zoe Crafts ~ Lace it Up!

Raise the Bar ~ Pink Is In!

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Digital Stamp ~ Sassy Studio Designs.

Crafty Cardmakers ~ Cute with a Dark Twist!

This week at Crafty Cardmakers we have the honour of being sponsored by Joanna Sheen.

Joanna has offered a £10 gift voucher for her shop to our winner!

Challenge # is 

"Cute with a Dark Twist!"

my card is also for challenges at:

Quixotic Inspirations ~ Sketch #1
Fussy & Fancy, One Stop Challenges, ABC Challenges and Simon Say's Stamp ~ Halloween.
Paper Cutz ~ Stars, Circles or Diamonds.


Don't forget if you fancy a chance to win some lush goodies my bloggerversary Candy is HERE


Ingredients
Pink Petticoat ~ Spooky Doodlies Collection.
American Crafts Thickers.

Chasing Leaves.

Its been a while since I made a shaped easel card but this shape nestie lends it-self to it so well!

Today's challenges are:

Papertake Weekly ~ Get In Shape.

Whiff of Joy ~ Anything but a Square.

Basic Grey ~ Autumn/Fall.{Pyrus paper pad}

The Pink Elephant ~ Autumn/Fall

Delightful Challenges & Stamping for the weekend ~ Fall Colours.

Whimsy Inspirations ~Die-cuts & Punches.

Ingredients:

Stamp ~ Whiff of Joy.

PP ~ Basic grey "Pyrus".

Dies ~ Nestabilities & Mariannes 

Leaf Punch ~Woodware .

Burlap & Jute from stash.

Coloured with Copic.

Sketch Saturday ~ # 177 with Robyns Fetish.

This week over at Sketch Saturday we have the wonderful Robyns Fetish as our sponsor.

This weeks prize is an amazing 5 digi stamps or 4 digi stamps and 1 paper pack!

And here is this weeks gorgeous sketch!

Now cyber kick me if you think I'm being stupid but this card is missing something,

 what it is I really don't know!!

Don't forget to try for my blog candy Here

Ingredients:

PP ~ Basic Grey "Out of Print"

Digi Stamp ~ Kenny K.

Ribbon ~ Interflora

CS ~ Stamping Up!

Coloured with Copics.

Flowers & Leaves

I am so cold today, I think its time to get the heating going!!

I'm off to Harvest Festival at Aidens school this afternoon armed with Home-made chocolate cake. This is their first Harvest Festival  performance so I'm quite looking forward to seeing what everyone has been practicing for!

Today's challenge cards are for:

Ooh La La

Totally Gorgeous ~ Ooh La La

Sketch & Stash ~ Sketch # 72.

One Stop Crafts ~ Anything Goes.

Charisma Cardz ~ In Stitches.

Fallen Leaves

Our Creative Corner ~ Olive, Rust, Chocolate & Blue,

Creative Inspiration ~ Single Layer Card.

Stampavie and More ~ Autumn.

Kaboodle Doodle, Papercraft Star  & Crazy4Challenges ~ Leaves.

Delightful Challenges & Stamping for the Weekend ~ Autumn Colours.

Rainbow Lady ~ Falling Leaves.

Don't got to enter my blog Candy too!


Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Digi Stamp ~ Sassy Studio Designs.

Net ~ Websters Pages.

Roses ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Ribbon & Pins from stash.

Ink ~ Stampin Up & Copics

Gold Stickles

Spooky Fun!

I've been in a baking mood the last couple of weeks and in an attempt to be a little different I've decided to make treat bags for the Trick n Treaters this year.

I've made 54 bag toppers,  now I just need to work out what to put in them.

I've tried these Mini peppermint Meringues dipped in plain chocolate and stuck together, which we call "Ghouls Eyeballs" but they didn't quite work out so I've going to try Peppermint creams instead.

Treat bag:

Catch the Bug ~ Treat Bag.

Cupcake, Everybody Art & Paper Pretties ~ Halloween.

Creative Card Crew ~ Spooky Fun!

Trick or Treat!

The Sweetest Thing ~ Sketch.

Crafts & Me ~ Orange.

My Time to Craft ~ Black & Orange.

Simon Say's Stamp ~ Halloween or Goth.

Charisma Cardz ~ In Stitches.

ABC Challenges ~ Anything Goes.

Don't got to enter my blog Candy too!


Ingredients:

CS ~ Stampin Up.

Digi Stamps ~ Kenny K & Bugaboo.

PP ~ Pink Petticoat.

Computer Generated Sentiments.

Ribbon ~ Dovecraft.

Coloured with Copics.

Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch # 135

These weeks are flying by....and these nights are drawing in too. It always seems strange when I go to work in the dark and find its still dark when I finish in the morning, the start of the spooky season!

This week at Inspirational Card Sketches we have one of our regular sponsors

Fresh Brewed Designs.

Heather the owner, Fresh Brewed Designs

is giving away....

3 Free Digi Images

of the winners choice.

~ICSketches #135~

Today's Challenges are:

One Stop Crafts  & ABC Challenges ~ Anything Goes.

Cupcake & Fussy 'n' Fancy ~ Halloween.

Don't got to enter my blog Candy too!

Ingredients:

PP ~ Bearly Mine Designs.

Digi Stamp @ Fresh Brewed Designs.

Ribbon from Stash.

CS ~ Stampin Up!

Stickles

Coloured with Copics.

Death by Lemons!

Work was cancelled so I made this instead!

I like to call it Death by Lemon!

3 layers of lemon sponge with lemon curd filling topped with butter cream icing!

Yep it tasted good too!

And these Meringues too

Lemon, Mint & Vanilla.
These won't last long!

Too Cute to Spook!

What again!

 I hear you cry!

Well this is this afternoons make, I've made the most of today as I'm back at work tonight, this just leaves me some time to sort out tea and chill out for a bit!

Too Cute!

Charisma Cardz ~ Black & Orange.

The Crafty Pad ~ One for the Boys.

Fussy & Fancy ~ Halloween.

Friday Sketch Challenge ~ Sketch # 2.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Bearly Mine Designs.

Digi Stamp ~ Kenny K.

Sentiment ~ Computer Generated.

Ribbon ~ May Arts.

Gems ~ Quixotic Paperie

CS ~ Bazzill.

Sweet Treats.

I'm here again!

I've been desperate to use these cute wooden cupcake from Kars for ages, they are so sweet and not badly priced either, they're just £3.14  from Handy Hippo

Sweet Treat.

Cute Card Thursday ~ Time for Cake.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday ~ Sketch  #122.

Colour Create ~ Lilac, Grey & White.

Autumn Breeze.

Card Patterns ~ Sketch  #135.

Paper Play ~ Autumn Colours.

Crafty Purple Frog ~ Layers.

Moving Along With The Times ~ Autumn Leaves.

Fussy & Fancy ~ Fall/Halloween.

Delightful Challenges ~ Dimensional.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat & Basic Grey {Pyrus}.

Digi Sentiment ~ Fresh Brewed Designs.

Pyrimage ~ Crafty Purple Frog.

Wooden Cupcakes & Leaves ~ Kars.

Burlap & Ribbon from stash.

Christmas "Crackers"

Morning All! 

I didn't get time to blog yesterday so today I'll blog twice....I know I'm like a bus!

Little Helpers.

ABC Christmas ~ Tiny Card/Tags.

Bah Humbug ~ Glitz & Glitter.

"A Right Pair of Crackers"

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz ~ Girls & Die Cuts.

Catch the Bug ~ Anything Goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts ~ Male Christmas Card.

The Crafty Pad ~ One for the Boys.

One Stop Challenge ~ Just for Men.

CRAFT ~ Bright Colours. 

Ingredients:

PP ~ Pink Petticoat & Basic Grey{ Nordic Holiday}.

Digi Stamps ~ Pink Petticoat, Kenny K & Bugaboo.

Ribbon ~ May Arts.

Gems ~ Anitas.

Gold Pen ~ Papermania.

Coloured with Copics.

My Delcate Rose.

One final card for today. 

I'd completely forgotten that I had this digi until I saw someone else use it earlier today.

 Isn't she beautiful!!

My Delicate Rose.

Sketch Saturday ~ Sketch # 175.

Fun with Shapes ~ Shabby/Vintage.

Crafts & Me ~ Use a Digi.

Truly Scrumptious ~ Distressing.

Allsorts ~ 5 Flowers

Ingredients:

PP ~ Prima.

CS ~ Stampin Up!

Digi Stamp ~ Crafts & Me {Hannah Lynn}

Roses & Leaves ~ Wild Orchid Crafts.

Pins from stash.

Coloured with Copics. 

Grinning from Ear to Ear!!

I have had a fabulous week so far and I'm sooooooooo

  HAPPY!!!!

On Saturday I got the news that I'd made the Team at Crafty Card Makers and today.......

Well you'll have to wait and see!! { not for too log though!!}

I've been in a Ching Chou Kuik mood today first up is :

Autumn Leaves.

In a Sweet Pea Dream ~ Anything Goes.

Stamptacular ~ Photo Inspiration.

Rainbow Lady & Stampavie & More ~ Autumn. 

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge ~ Brown, Red, Yellow & Orange.

Mariannes Design Diva ~ Bloom & Grow.

Bunny Zoe Challenges ~ Sketch.

next is:

Ocean Dance.

Incy Wincy ~ Think Pink.

Crafty Purple Frog ~ Layers.

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes.

Totally Gorgeous ~ Sketch.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Basic Grey.{ Indie Bloom & Indian Summer}

Decoupage ~ Crafty Purple Frog.

Stamp ~ Sweet Pea Stamp bought from That Crafty.

Punch ~ Woodware.

Die ~ Mariannes

Ribbon, Pins & Charms from stash.

Inspirational Card Sketches ~ Sketch # 134 & a Freebie!

This week at Inspirational Card Sketches we have another Double Sponsor week

Our sponsors this week are...

The Stamping Boutique and they are giving

away 5 digi images to one winner.

AND

Our second sponsor is Bugagoo is

giving away 7 free image prize pack to one winner.

the challenge this week is to create a shaped card using the sketch below.

ICSketches #134

The DT were totally spoilt this week, we received digi's from both sponsors but for my card I've chosen to use this cute little Frankenstein  

Today's other challenges are:

Papertake Weekly, Simon Say's Stamp  Crazy4Challenges & ABC Challenges ~ Anything Goes!

Paper Cutz ~ Cute not Spooky Halloween.

Raise the Bar ~ Hats Off!

Moving Along with the Times , Crafty Calendar Challenges, Stamp with Fun  

The Pink Elephant  & Secret Crafter's  ~ Halloween,

 

Ingredients :

CS ~ SU!

Digi Stamp ~ The Stamping Boutique

PP ~ My Memories.

Alpha's ~ AC Thickers.

Stickles.

Please help yourself to my Witches Hat template just right click and save then print onto A4 card this will give you a card of approx 14cm X 14cm.

Trick or Treat!

Today is the re-launch of the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge.

 The challenge now has new management and a new design team too and guess what I'm on the team {YaaaaaaaaaaaaY}

The challenge for this fortnight is everyone's favourite..........Anything Goes! 

My Pumpkin teddy is also for "Anything Goes" challenges at Simon Say's Stamp,  Crazy4Challenges & ABC Challenges and for Halloween at Secret Crafter's, Stamp with Fun, Crafty Calendar Challenges, Moving Along with the Times & Paper Cutz.

I've used this weeks Sketch from Papertake Weekly and finally Bearly Mine's challenge of 3 designer Papers.

Ingredients:

PP ~ Bearly Mine Designs.

Digi Stamp ~ Teddybo.

CS ~ Stampin Up.

Stickles.

Coloured with Copics.